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Isaiah 8:19-21 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

19. Some will tell you to ask for advice from people who get messages from those who have died. Others will tell you to ask for advice from people who talk to the spirits of the dead. But those people only whisper. Their words are barely heard. So shouldn't you ask for advice from your God? Why should you get advice from dead people to help those who are alive?

20. Follow what the Lord taught you and said to you through me. People who don't speak in keeping with those words won't have any hope in the morning.

21. They will suffer and be hungry. They'll wander through the land. When they are very hungry, they will become angry. They'll look up toward heaven. They'll call down curses on their king and their God.

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